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Big day planned today so was up and ready. Had coffee and a lovely smoothie Tonz made. He has been living in Germany for such a long time that he sometimes has trouble remembering the English word for something. He was explaining all the items that were in the smoothie - banana, avocado, berries and then he says with mince. I'm like "what..... wait a minute...." until we worked out he was saying Mint but the German words is minze. Haha - all good, there was no raw meat in the smoothie.
Tonz went and picked up Vince & Alison and then we all walked to the Strassenbahn Linie 1 (this is the tram). We changed over to the train at Deutz and then got the regional train to Linz. Tonz & Susi had been on holidays in the Canary Islands and Susi had badly twisted her ankle. It was still quite painful so she was debating whether to come out with us for the day. In the end she did come along but had it strapped up, which helped. So glad she could be with us!
It was a very hot day today - 32 degrees!
We
got off the train at 'Linz am Rhein' which is Linz on the Rhine in English. It is a beautiful old town which is popular with tourists because it is on the Rhine and has many colourful half-timber houses. After walking around the town for a while, we decided to stop at a Spanish restaurant for lunch as Susi said it had quite good write ups. We sat out the back in the garden area and it was very pleasant after the heat outside. We had the tapas menu for 4 (even though there were 5 of us) and there was so much food! This was accompanied with a cold glass of Kölsch.
After lunch we wandered around the town, taking in the sights. We then headed down to join the river cruise to Bonn. It was such a nice way to spend a couple of hours! I sat on the top of the boat which gave uninterrupted 360 degree views of life on the river Rhine. We saw beautiful buildings and also some of the destruction from the war.
It was very hot in Bonn so we walked around the old town and then had some iced
tea to cool down. After this little break we went inside the Cloisters of the cathedral for a look around. Unfortunately the rest of the building is closed for renovation.
We then got the train to Köln - Susi left us here as it was getting too much for her sore foot. We came out of the train station and were immediately hit with the spectacular view of the cathedral. We spent some time admiring both the outside and the inside of this very special building. We wandered around the old town for a while, then sat in the square and had some dinner. Afterwards we went to a brauhaus (brew house) called Päffgen and drank some more Kölsch. Oh, and maybe a shot of Jagermeister.
After a very full day and lovely evening, we all caught the tram back home.
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